Poor Groucho

[james_davis_nicoll]

My poor cat Groucho becomes extra shaggy in the winter and as a result has endless trouble with snarls in his coat. And he hates having them combed or trimmed out. Oh, well. Fur's twirled problems.

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[kithrup.livejournal.com]

I brush him when he's curled up next to me (which admittedly is very often), but I can't get the tangles out without a furminator or similar, and he doesn't like those.

His fur is about 1.5 inches long right now; it was longer but I have a groomer coming by every four months now. (He did not like the bath, and he did not tolerate the hair dryer, so he was moist and smelled of shampoo for a couple of days.)

[felila.livejournal.com]

Makali'i had a nasty attack of flea eczema a year ago. Her coat was tangled, dirty, and interspersed with bloody raw patches and scabs. (She would NOT let me apply flea meds; I finally managed to dose her, sneaking up on her while she was eating.) I managed to clear all that up, eventually, but it was a long process. It started with a small flea comb, over which I had more control than I did over the brush. I could comb lightly over scabs and avoid raw patches. Perhaps Barry would tolerate flea-comb detangling.